The UK’s public broadcaster BBC has revealed that it is trialling a new cutting-edge virtual visualisation technology dubbed “Venue Vu” in its coverage of Wimbledon 2011 tennis tournament on the BBC HD and BBC2 channels, probably in preparation for similar deployment during the London 2012 Olympics next year. Making its debut on air for the first time during the Wimbledon ... Read More »

This month saw the launch of a new and innovative app from Korean consumer electronics manufacturer Samsung in the form of the Smart View application which allows users to view content from their Smart TVs on their Galaxy S2 smartphone. In the future they will also be able to stream content from the Smart TV – currently the D7000 and ... Read More »

The difficult financial and economic climate that we have seen over the past couple of years in the United Kingdom has resulted in many problems for retailers, especially brick-and-mortar stores. The High Street has taken a real battering as a result of the downturn, and whilst the recession may officially be over, retailers have continued to see things plummet in ... Read More »

Korean manufacturer LG Electronics is to expand the implementation of DivX video compression codec on more of its devices by equipping them with Divx Plus HD certification, the highest one available which offers the widest range of DivX file compatibility. DivX has featured in a number of storage-based LG products so far, including Blu Ray players. The company has been ... Read More »

According to a recent forecast, mainstream success is not expected for 3D TV over the coming years, despite a high proportion of active users seen last year. The figures were released by London-based market research and consulting firm Informa Telecoms & Media this week in a report titled “Global 3D TV Forecasts: 2nd Edition” which claims that the proportion of ... Read More »